Below are links to the presentations from the APMA 2017 Annual Scientific Meeting (The National).

Please note that not all of the presentations will be listed if we have not received permission by the speaker.

Thursday, July 27

• Breakfast Symposium 1—Wound Care
• Cellular Senescence
• Breakfast Symposium 2—Biomechanics
• Standards of Care in Biomechanics
• Are Orthotics Effective in the Management of Heel Pain?
• Track 1: Wound Care
• Bioburden-Based Wound Management: A New Paradigm
• Collagen and MMPs
• Split Thickness Skin Grafts in Wound Care
• Gas Gangrene
• Track 2: Biomechanics/Sports Medicine
• Importance of Running Shoes
• Treating Running Injuries: Don’t Focus on the Foot
• The Female Athlete
• Track 3: Pain Management
• Pain, Neuropathy, and Wounds: A New Paradigm; Neuromodulation and Placental Tissue
• Overlooked Drug Interactions Including Rx, OTC, Supplements, and Illicit Drugs
• Lower Extremity Arthritis and Spinal Stenosis/Pseudo-Stenosis: Understanding and Managing the Three Factors of Arthritic Pain
• Track 4: Foot and Ankle Surgery
• Medial Calcaneal Displacement Osteotomy
• Addressing Plantar Plate Technology
• Young Physicians’ Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery-Lunch and Learn (Non-CECH)
• Flatfoot Reconstruction: Strategic Approach to Preoperative Planning
• Ankle Fracture ORIF—Getting Back to the Principles
• Ankle Pilon
• Plenary Lecture: Nail Surgery Techniques
• Nail Surgery Techniques 
• Track 1: Limb Preservation
• Lower Limb Salvage: Mementos of Why We Take on the Challenge of Preservation
• Internal or External Fixation Topics in Charcot Neuroarthropathy, Staged Management
• The Impact of Fluorescence Angiography in Limb Salvage
• Critical Limb Ischemia
• Track 2: Dermatology
• Scar Revision
• Psoriasis
• Disappearing Nail Bed
• Newest on Mycology Research
• Track 3: Public Health/Disparities
• Podiatry Impact on High-Low Amputation Ratio Characteristics: A 16-Year Retrospective Study
• Influence of Race on Major Lower Extremity Amputation Rates
• Time to ADAPT: The Adoption of Diabetic Amputation Prevention Teams
• Mapping Marijuana: Variation in Key Features of Current State Medical Marijuana Laws
• Track 4: Miscellaneous Topics in Podiatric Medicine
• Cold Laser Therapy: An In-Depth Look at Its Applications in Podiatry
• The Use of Acellular Dermal Matrices in Tendon Repair
• Evolving Principles in Foot and Ankle Trauma
• The Importance of Nutrition in Wound Healing

PMA Program

• Clinical Medicine
• Radiographic Interpretation: Keys to Improved Patient Care
• Keys for Practice Productivity
• Efficiency in the Office
• Private Insurance
• Delegating Tasks in the Office

Friday, July 28

• Breakfast Symposium 1—PVD/PAD
• PVD/PAD
• Breakfast Symposium 2—Dermatological Conditions of the Foot and Ankle: 2017 Update
• Dermatological Conditions of the Foot and Ankle: 2017 Update (Part 1)
• Dermatological Conditions of the Foot and Ankle: 2017 Update (Part 2)
• Plenary Lecture: Integrated Approach to Chronic Pain
• Integrated Approach to Chronic Pain
• Track 1: Oral Abstract Presentations
• 20 Years of the Cochrane Review: The Top Podiatric Take-Aways
• Molecular Diagnostic Testing in Diabetic Foot Ulcerations: Could this Technique Alter Topical Wound Treatment?
• A Retrospective Study on Lower Extremity Amputation Levels Following Endovascular Reperfusion: An Institutional Review of Podiatric Management in the Limb Salvage Team
• Risk Factors for Suboptimal Outcomes in Hammertoe Surgery
• Biomarker Discovery: Prognosis and Management of Chronic Diabetic Foot Ulcers
• Fish Skin Grafts Promote Superior Cell Ingrowth Compared to Amnion Allografts, Human Cadaver Skin, and Mammalian Extracellular Matrix (ECM)
• A Retrospective Multicenter Review Evaluating the Safety of Utilizing Fiberglass Total Contact Casts in Hyperbaric Oxygen Chambers
• Evaluation of the Effect of Removable Cast Walkers on Spinal Alignment and Gait
• Track 2: Radiology
• Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Fundamentals
• Radiology Overview of Arthritic Processes
• Dual-Energy CT for Gout
• Ultrasound Intervention
• Ultrasound in the Podiatric Practice
• Track 3: Surgical Blitz
• 1st MTPJ Arthrodesis: Surgical Technique and Pearls
• Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Foot and Ankle Surgery
• Brachymetatarsia: Obtaining the Length You Desire
• EDB Transfer Technique to Correct Multiplanar Deformity of the Lesser Digits
• Spring Ligament Repair during Flatfoot Reconstruction: Why it Should be Addressed when Correcting Sagittal Plane Deformities
• Subchondroplasty Repair of Bone Marrow Lesions and Current Literature
• Surgical Management of Osteomyelitis and Infected Hardware
• Young Physicians' Wound Care and Complications Lunch and Learn (Non-CECH)
• Many Faces of Wound Care
• Management of Infected Hardware in the Foot and Ankle
• Failed Tarsal Tunnel Release

Participating Organization Tracks—1:30–3:30 p.m.

• Session 1-A: Trends in Podiatric Medicine
• Diabetic Neuropathy, Spinal Stenosis, Pseudostenosis—Overlap, Misdiagnosis and Management
• Session 3: Current Concepts in Podiatric Surgery
• Rationale, Uses, and Complications with Intramedullary Nail Fixation
• Limb Salvage versus Early Amputation: A Difficult Decision
• Session 1-B: Foot and Ankle Pediatrics
• Pediatric Growing Pains: Myth Solved

Participating Organization Tracks—3:30–5:30 p.m.

• Session 1: First Metatarsal Phalangeal Joint: Achieving Better Outcomes
• Surgical Approaches to First Ray
• First Metatarsal Phalangeal Joint: Achieving Better Outcomes
• Achieving Better Outcomes: Conservative Management of the 1st MTPJ
• First MTPJ Surgical Case Presentations
• First Metatarsal Phalangeal Joint: Achieving Better Outcomes—Surgical Complications
• First MTPJ: Achieving Better Outcomes
• Session 2: Vascular Diseases: Interventional Radiology Perspectives
• Current Status of Endovascular Therapies for Critical Limb Ischemia in the Setting of Wound Care
• Venous Disease: How it Relates to the Lower Extremity
• Extreme Interventions for Critical Limb Ischemia
• Session 3: Heel Pain: Diagnosis and Conservative Treatment
• Emphasizing Current Biomechanical Concepts
• Imaging Options for the Assessment of Complicated Heel Pain

PMA Program

• The Diabetic Foot
• Terminology 101
• Important Topics in Podiatric Medicine
• Drug Interactions

Saturday, July 29

• Students' and Residents' Program (Non-CECH)
• Confessions of a Young Practitioner: My Worst Surgical Complications, How I Handled Them, and What I’ve Learned
• Transition from Student to Resident and Resident to Practitioner
• Why a Fellowship?
• Is Private Practice Still an Option?
• Starting Out in Practice and Job Search
• Plenary Lecture: Latest Treatment Options for Refractory Gout
• Latest Treatment Options for Refractory Gout
• Controversy Debates
• Neuroma—To Inject?
• Arthroplasty